Long time lurker tries again with excel tracking

Hello everyone,

I’m a longtime lurker, and here’s my first post. The reason that I feel so motivated to post is that yesterday I performed an intense extender routine, and had some serious “soreness” the remaining day; the next morning I had pretty positive PI and much healthier flaccid than usual. I hope that these type of PI’s keep coming and keep me motivated in this journey.

I’m a longtime PE “on-offer”, I become obsessed for days on end, and then after 1-2 weeks fall of the wagon and quit.

I have been at this for the past 3 years, and can definitely say that I wholeheartedly believe in PE. PE takes time, dedicated, practice and hard-fucking-work.

There are times that I have not been willing to put in the time, but here goes attempt #25!

This time around, I will be tracking my progress with an excel spreadsheet that I’ve password locked on my computer(paranoid). By tracking and monitoring this, a more methodical approach, as the pros and real-gainers do on here, I hope to sustain my PE efforts over a longer period of time.

In the next couple of days I may share my routine, and beginning stats.

If anyone has a guide on tracking I would love to read

Things that I’m considering:

1. How important is goal setting?
2. Is my measuring accurate?
3. How long to keep routine before gains and change routine?

Wish me luck,

hey there zeusonfleek,

What’s up? You had three questions, I have (partial) answers.

1. Goal setting helps you be consistent and allows you to have your goal on your mind at all times. For me, anyway, it spills into everything I do. I can’t watch tv now, I need to buy groceries or I won’t have an uninterrupted hour to hang. I gotta hit the gym now because I need time to hang afterwards. “Sorry boss, I can’t do overtime today”. I planned my free afternoon today, and I’m going to hang. Besides, I already finished that report because I had previously planned to have most of this afternoon off, increasing my focus and therefore work speed. My goal, however, lies in the process, not the result. You can’t plan when or how much you gain or via which method. You can only work optimally towards it.

2. Just measure consistently. As long as you do that you can track progress. If you’re like me you’ll catch yourself trying to eek out those last mms on the ruler, and then you can start to identify the things you’re doing to get that result and stop. Eventually you’ll reach your most consistent method of measurement, and stick to it.

3. Try a routine with the absolute minimum of one month before deciding whether or not it has worked. You should be slightly sore, without reduction in EQ. This is for most methods though, and I have no personal experience with extenders. I believe extenders assume a more or less constant rate of gains at 1” per 1000 hours. So maybe.. if you don’t see anything after 300 hours or so, reconsider the tension.